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Poet Edgar Lee Masters 1868–1950
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Living, Love, Marriage & Companionship, Nature, Relationships, Sorrow & Grieving, Death, Infatuation & Crushes, Heartache & Loss
Poetic Terms Dramatic Monologue, Persona
Biography
Edgar Lee Masters is best remembered for his great collection Spoon River Anthology, a sequence of over two hundred free-verse epitaphs spoken from the cemetery of the town of Spoon River. When the collection first saw publication in 1915, it caused a great sensation because of its forthrightness about sex, moral decay, and hypocrisy; but its cynical view of Midwestern small town values influenced a whole generation of writers . . .
Poems by Edgar Lee Masters
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SUBJECT Living, Love, Marriage & Companionship, Nature, Relationships, Sorrow & Grieving, Death, Infatuation & Crushes, Heartache & Loss
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Dramatic Monologue, Persona
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